Preparing for installation#

Download the EDA Installation playground#

Ensure that your Linux installation¹ environment meets the requirements described in Installation platform requirements.

Clone the playground repository to your tools-system.

git clone https://github.com/nokia-eda/playground && cd playground 

Installing additional tools#

Download additional tools that can be used during the installation.

make download-tools

As a result of this command, the kind, kubectl, kpt, and yq utilities will be installed in the ./tools directory.

Obtaining the EDA packages#

EDA is packaged using the Kubernetes Package Tool (kpt). EDA uses this package manager tool to install core EDA components. The installer downloads two kpt packages by downloading their relevant git repositories.

To obtain the EDA package, enter the following command:

make download-pkgs

This command downloads the following git repositories to their respective directories:

• EDA kpt package in the eda-kpt directory
• EDA built-in catalog in the catalog directory

Download the EDA EDAADM repository#

Ensure that your Linux installation environment meets the requirements described in Installation platform requirements.

Clone the EDAADM repository to your tools system and change to the directory.

git clone https://github.com/nokia-eda/edaadm && cd edaadm

Download extra tools#

Bundle tools#

Go to the bundles directory in the edaadm repository.

cd bundles

And download the tools for the bundles.

make download-tools

This step downloads² the edaadm CLI tool for your architecture in the edaadm/bundles/tools directory.

The edaadm tool is used to generate configuration files for use while deploying the Talos Linux virtual machines and the Kubernetes environment. You can copy or move the edaadm tool from the ./tools directory to a location in your $PATH to make it available in your shell for future use.

kpt tools#

After downloading the tools for bundles, download the tools for kpt. Go to the kpt directory in the edaadm repository.

cd ../kpt

And download the tools for the kpt package.

make download-tools

This step downloads the kpt and kubectl tools in the edaadm/kpt/tools directory.

Download the Talos machine image#

The edaadm tool provides you with the URL to download the latest Talos machine image for use with VMware or KVM.

To deploy the Talos Kubernetes environment, download the Talos Machine image based on the environment in which you want to deploy the VMs.

Downloading the KVM image#

Use the edaadm tool to display the URL from where you can download the latest image for use with KVM for the supported Talos version.

edaadm images --mach-type nocloud

Schematic ID is :376567988ad370138ad8b2698212367b8edcb69b5fd68c80be1f2ec7d603b4ba
Asset URLs are:
https://factory.talos.dev/image/376567988ad370138ad8b2698212367b8edcb69b5fd68c80be1f2ec7d603b4ba/v1.9.2/nocloud-amd64.iso
https://factory.talos.dev/image/376567988ad370138ad8b2698212367b8edcb69b5fd68c80be1f2ec7d603b4ba/v1.9.2/nocloud-amd64.raw.xz

Download the nocloud-amd64.iso image from the ISO URL, filepath.iso.

You can download using your browser or you can use the curl command.

Downloading the VMware OVA image#

Use the edaadm tool to display the URL from where you can download latest image for use with VMware vSphere for the supported Talos version.

edaadm images --mach-type vmware

Schematic ID is :903b2da78f99adef03cbbd4df6714563823f63218508800751560d3bc3557e40
Asset URLs are:
https://factory.talos.dev/image/903b2da78f99adef03cbbd4df6714563823f63218508800751560d3bc3557e40/v1.9.2/vmware-amd64.iso
https://factory.talos.dev/image/903b2da78f99adef03cbbd4df6714563823f63218508800751560d3bc3557e40/v1.9.2/vmware-amd64.ova

Download the vmware-amd64.ova image from the OVA URL, filepath.ova.

You can download using your browser or you can use the curl or wget commands. You can also use the URL directly with the ovftool command to deploy the OVA to your VMware vSphere environment.